aelfinn wrote:It doesn’t seem to resolve my particular problem of trying to assign shortcuts using the Windows, or Super, key. In LM13’s Cinnamon edition, that was still possible. Or is it something about your workaround that prevents that from happening?

I have the same problem. It looks like no one uses the windows/super/mod5 key except us.

I have the same problem. It looks like no one uses the windows/super/mod5 key except us.

I used to use it for all my custom shortcuts, but I switched to an IBM Type-M keyboard on my Mint 14 machine and it doesn't have a Super key. I kinda miss it (now I'm stuck with the few unused function keys) but my keys are so clicky that I guess it's worth it.

I can confirm that the windows key can not be used for a user-defined keyboard shortcut on a fresh install of Linux Mint 14 Nadia (and did not work on Mint 13 Maya either). Also, the above-mentioned workaround does not work.

The two parameters did the trick together with the windows key written as <Super>. Well, so I tried this again in Mint 14, but alas, there is no metacity key anymore in gconf-editor. Is there a way to get this key back?

This seams to be wider problem. It is not only Super-D and other custom keys disappeared. My keyboard, after upgrade, behave unpredictably. I use Super-E to start terminal. Now I need to stroke it twice. Custom shortcuts works 'at their own discretion'.In Pluma or Gedit, my favourite function Ctr-F is disabled. While in Gedit, Super-E result is added 'e' in code - what a nice experience at next run.Something definitly not defined in keyboard....hope gurus will fix it

Forgive my noobishness, but what are the potential ill effects of deleting files from this folder?

I am using the workaround posted by electrickite to create custom shortcuts, but none of my keyboard shortcuts (default pre-defined or custom) work consistently. Ctrl-Alt-T launches terminal 1 out of 10 times. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace logs out 1 out of 3 times at best. Custom Ctrl-Shift-X for xkill is probably 1 out of 10 times as well. (Luckily Mint seems to be pretty stable overall so I haven't need xkill -- all 10 attempts were simply testing.)

So I deleted the files in /var/lib/xkb/ and restarted to no avail. Most shortcuts seem to work, but no custom shortcuts and none of the default "launcher" shortcuts. I really just want to be able to open a terminal and use xkill with shortcuts. Has anybody had success recently? I think I'm using the alternate keyboard in electrickite's workaround, however I got it from here before finding this thread. The only difference I can see is in the version I'm using the second instance of

# Translators: those are keywords for the keyboard control-center panelKeywords=Shortcut;Repeat;Blink;X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-control-center-2.0# Translators: those are keywords for the keyboard control-center panelKeywords=Shortcut;Repeat;Blink;X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-control-center-2.0

Okay, after using the electrickite workaround, there are at least four ways I can think of to set up keyboard shortcuts. None of them are consistently working for me.1. Cinnamon settings -- keyboard2. Preferences -- keyboard2.1. Preferences -- keyboard alternate3. $ gsettings4. dconf

Is there something else I can try to get shortcuts for launching a terminal and for xkill working? Thanks.

Hey electrickite - you have *no* idea how thankful I am to have found your workaround for keybindings under Cinnamon. I use shutter constantly and love Mint Cinnamon but until today had no way of getting the keybindings to play nice. Your workaround... worked!

This bug hit me too. I am starting a package of tiny x11 helper apps (http://dev.gnutelephony.org/gitweb/?p=p ... ;a=summary) to do some window management functions that are currently missing in muffin and sometimes elsewhere, starting with one to simply "rotate" workspaces, since the built-in ones for muffin only has options to go left/right, rather than going back to ws 0 after reaching the end of the list. On xfce4 (xfwm has this feature) I normally bind this functionality to super-tab (and rotate back to super-backtab), and really the choice was from kde which uses super-tab to rotate activities...

Anyway yes, creating new custom shortcuts from cinnamon's keyboard control do not seem to work as noted here, though any of the existing built-in muffin/cinnamon shortcuts can be re-pogrammed. New custom keyboard entries can be created instead from gnome control center keyboard control, also as noted in this thread, but they behave strangely if you assign super as part of the sequence. At best, if I hold down super, and press tab twice, it worked, and then kept jumping as expected so long as I kept holding down super and hit tab again after... I decided to assign to control-tab instead , and that works fine...

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aelfinn wrote:It doesn’t seem to resolve my particular problem of trying to assign shortcuts using the Windows, or Super, key. In LM13’s Cinnamon edition, that was still possible. Or is it something about your workaround that prevents that from happening?

I have the same problem. It looks like no one uses the windows/super/mod5 key except us.

I'm using an Apple keyboard & was able to rectify some weirdness here:System Settings>Keyboard, then on the bottom right is a button that says "Layout Settings"Under the "Layouts" tab, you can make sure you have the correct keyboard selected, and test all of the keys, w/visual feedback. Then from there, if you click "Options..." on the bottom right, there are a LOT of settings regarding Command, Super, Alt, Ctrl, etc.

Although my Command key still seems to not work in combination with any letter keys or Space.

But I'm STILL having key command issues as well. They work in a way that any tech hates to hear, "intermittently". Usually, the pre-defined ones seem ok, and the ones I set up w/arrow & number keys for workspace & window management seem ok. But for example, I have Alt + w to launch Firefox, and sometimes, it doesn't work. Sometimes, it works after a few tries. And sometimes, it works when I hold the keys for a bit. I can't make any sense out of it, & hope it'll get fixed in an update.

Very interesting is that the shortcut for 'Home Folder' appears not to work ... unless you're insistent haha.What I mean by that is that a normal press of "Super + E" has no effect, but if you double press it a bit fast, like a double click, that the home folder will pop up. Or if you press it for a bit longer.